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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2000
John Martin Farrar, Rawdon Leeds, GB;
Andrew Clive Jackson, Harrogate, GB;
John Martin Farrar, Rawdon Leeds, GB;
Andrew Clive Jackson, Harrogate, GB;
Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited, Tortola, VG;
Abstract
Water soluble, amphoteric optical brighteners (W) comprising at least one brightener-characteristic radical X which contain at least one anionic substituent and covalently linked over at least one tertiary amino group Z to at least one non-chromophoric, essentially aliphatic, polyquaternary ammonium-hydrocarbon radical Y containing more than one quaternary ammonium group and in which each hydrocarbon radical is optionally interrupted by and/or substituted with one or more further heteroatoms, have surprising brightening properties, especially in papermaking, and in the form of their aqueous solutions are of notable stability.